List of Acronyms

(3D/4D)-Var (3/4 Dimensional) - Variational 4A/OP Automatized Atmospheric Absorption Atlas/OPerational AC-VC Atmospheric Composition Virtual Constellation ACCP Aerosols, Clouds, Convection and Precipitation ACX GeoXO Atmospheric Composition ADM Atmospheric Dynamics Mission AERIS Data and Services for the Atmosphere AERONET AErosol RObotic NETwork AI Artificial Intelligence AMV Atmospheric Motion Vector AOD Aerosol Optical Depth APHRODITE Asian Precipitation - Highly-Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation APT Automatic Picture Transmission ARTS Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency) AVCS Advanced Vidicon Camera System BC Black Carbon BIPM International Bureau of Weights and Measures BRDF Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function C3IEL Cluster for Cloud evolution, ClImatE and Lightning C3S Copernicus Climate Change Service CAMS Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service CAPE Convective Available Potential Energy CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation CATS Cloud-Aerosol Transport System CCI Climate Change Initiative CCSDS Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems CDR Climate Data Record CDRD Cloud Dynamics and Radiation Database CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites CFC ChlorFluoroCarbon CGMS Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites CI Convection Initiation CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies CLW Cloud Liquid Water CM Cloud Mask CM-SAF Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility CMA Chinese Meteorological Agency CMEMS Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service CMORPH CPC MORPHing technique CMV Cloud Motion Vector CNES Centre national d'études spatiales France CNRM Centre national de la recherche météorologique France CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique France CNSA Chinese National Space Administration COCCON COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network CoMet Carbon Dioxide and Methane field campaign CONTRAIL Comprehensive Observation Network for TRace gases by AIrLiner COP Conference Of the Parties CORRA COmbined Radar-Radiometer Algorithm CPC Climate Prediction Center CRM Cloud Resolving Model CRTM Community Radiative Transfer Model CTTH Cloud Top Temperature and Height CWDP Commercial Weather Data Pilot CYGNSS CYclone Global Navigation Satellite System DAOD Differential AOD DBNet Direct Broadcast NETwork WMO-OMM DCS Data Collection System DDA Discrete Dipole Approximation DIAL DIfferential Absorption Lidar DISORT DIScrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Allemagne DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DNB Day and Night Band DOFS Degrees of Freedom for Signal DU Dobson Unit DVB Digital Video Broadcast DVB-S Digital Video Broadcast by Satellite EC European Commission ECMWF European Centre for Medium-term Weather Forecast ECOSTRESS Ecostress Spectral Library Database ECV Essential Climate Variable EDR Environmental Data Record EE Earth Explorer EEA European Environment Agency EF Emission Factor ELDO European Launcher Development Organisation ENSO El Niño Southern Oscillation EOS Earth Observing System EOSDIS EOS Data Information System EPS EUMETSAT Polar System ERA ECMWF ReAnalysis ERB Earth Radiation Budget ESA European Space Agency ESE Earth Science Enterprise ESRO European Space Research Organisation ESSA Environmental Science Services Administration ESSP Earth System Science Pathfinder ESTO Earth Science Technology Office EUMETSAT EUropean organisation for the exploitation of METeorological SATellites EW Earth Watch EXIM EXtrapolated IMagery products FASTEM FAST Emissivity Model FCDR Fundamental Climate Data Record FCI Flexible Combined Imager FCover Fractional Cover (of vegetation) FDR Fundamental Data Record FGGE First GARP Global Experiment FFT Fast Fourier Transform FGGE First Global GARP Experiment WMO-OMM FIR Far IR FOR Field Of Regard FOV Field Of View FSOI Forecast Sensitivity Observation Impact FSR Forecast Sensitivity to R (the observation error covariance matrix) FT Fourier Transform FTS Fourier Transform Spectrometer FY Feng Yun GADS Global Aerosol Data Set GARP Global Atmospheric Research Programme WMO-OMM GAS GMES Atmospheric Service GASP GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product GAW Global Atmospheric Watch GCM Global Climate Model GCOS Global Climate Observing System GDP Gross Domestic Product GEO GEostationary Orbit GEO Group on Earth Observation GEOS-5 Goddard Earth Observing System model - version...